Lesbian Women Have More Orgasms Than Heterosexual Women, According To Science
Heterosexuality is the most common sexual orientation, but that does not mean that in terms of pleasure during intimate relationships it is the best option necessarily.
Although it makes evolutionary sense that at least a good part of the population of a species is attracted to the opposite sex, happiness and well-being do not have to fit into the survival mechanisms enhanced by natural selection; can be governed by a totally different logic.
Research recently published in Archives of Sexual Behaviorfor example, gives us an example that the sexual orientation that some people consider “natural” (erroneously), in fact, could be less advantageous as far as pleasure is concerned. At least, if we take as a reference the frequency with which we have orgasms, an indicator that can give us an approximate idea, although not exact or unrelated to debate, about how much we enjoy sex.
Numerous studies have recorded a clear trend: women tend to experience significantly fewer orgasms than men, in general. Several explanations have been given about this phenomenon.
Some put emphasis on genetics, and point out that “nature has made us this way” for evolutionary reasons, while others, more linked to gender studies, point to culture, pointing out that female sexuality is only beginning to be oriented towards pleasure in recent years, and only in certain societies.
But… what happens when you not only take into account whether you are a man or a woman and also analyze the influence of sexual orientation? This was the objective of the research we will talk about.
To carry out this study, more than 52,000 men and women of all sexual orientations collaborated, all of whom were adults residing in the United States. These people had to answer a simple questionnaire about the participants’ sexual lives, and then this data was analyzed to find correlations.
The results, in some way, could be interpreted as a sign that the male sex is not very efficient when it comes to producing orgasms in the other person. The people who assured most frequently having orgasms always or almost always during relationships They were heterosexual men (95%), followed by homosexual and bisexual men (89% and 88%, respectively) and, in third place, lesbian women (86%).
From this point, curiously, there is a significant statistical gap In the case of bisexual women, only 66% responded affirmatively to this question, closely followed by heterosexual women.
Is female sexuality culturally limited?
There are several curious things in these results. The main It is the difference between lesbian women and bisexual and heterosexual women Among them there are at least 20% less likely to respond that they always or almost always experience orgasms during sex.
Furthermore, another important conclusion is that the ability of women to have orgasms frequently can be, at least, very similar to that of heterosexual men, which indicates that cultural taboos and customs They could be greatly influencing the way in which intimate relationships between heterosexuals occur.
Are men worse in bed?
Another interesting conclusion is that there is an inverse trend between men and women: in them, heterosexuals have more orgasms, while the opposite happens in women. This could be interpreted as a sign that the male gender has a greater tendency to not focus as much on achieving climax in the other person, or at least he is not getting it.
In any case, more research will be necessary to see if these results are also found in other similar investigations and if these help shed more light on the interpretation of these data.
